The development of trade and investment in Asia has resulted in the increase of international commercial transactions. In many parts of the region, rapid development has meant increased caseloads for already overburdened courts, further leading to slow adjudication of commercial disputes. As a...

DynCorp International, LLC, a U.S. company, and Aramco, a Saudi-owned corporation, entered into a contract for a computer system which was to be manufactured in the U.S. and installed at Aramco's facilities in Saudi Arabia. The contract contained a “choice of law” provision requiring the...

Earlier this year the Federal Ministry of Justice released the second edition of the brochure, Law - Made in Germany. For those readers who do not know the brochure, it is the product of an umbrella group of German professional organizations known as the Bündnis für das deutsche Recht. A...

The goal of the Global Impunity Index (GII) is to make visible, in quantitative terms, the impunity worldwide and its relationship with other complex phenomena such as inequality, corruption, and violence. • The GII is the most important international academic effort to measure—in...

What would the United States look like if it stood on the side of peace and justice? In this keynote address, Adrien Wing advocates that it would have to support substantive justice. It must commit itself to respecting and using international law to further this type of justice. The United...